Fireflies down Greenjackets behind Jensen’s big night at the plate
Carter Jensen led the bats with two doubles and a homer in Columbia’s 8-3 win over the Augusta GreenJackets at Segra Park Tuesday night.
The Columbia Fireflies, in conjunction with the Kansas City Royals, today announced their 2023 Field Staff. Tony Peña Jr. will return to the soda city for his second season as the Fireflies’ Manager and he will be joined by 2022 pitching coach John Habyan.
Javier Vaz welcomed the 2022 draft class to Columbia in a big way. The Vanderbilt product slammed his first homer, a three-run shot over the right field wall in the fourth inning to raise Columbia’s lead to 5-1.
The Fireflies continue their series with the Carolina Mudcats tomorrow at 12:05 pm at Segra Park. RHP Ben Kudrna (0-2, 0.66 ERA) gets the nod for the Fireflies and the Mudcats counter with RHP Israel Puello (3-6, 6.53 ERA).
Columbia worked some late inning magic behind the bat of Carter Jensen to upend the GreenJackets 5-4 in the series finale at Segra Park Sunday night.
Carter Jensen led the bats with two doubles and a homer in Columbia’s 8-3 win over the Augusta GreenJackets at Segra Park Tuesday night.
Omar Hernandez sliced a single to left to score River Town in the bottom of the 10th to push the Fireflies to a 13-12 walk-off victory.
The walk-off homer was the Fireflies first walk-off hit since Darryl Collins’ walk-off grand slam June 26, 2021.
The Columbia Fireflies today announced game times and some promotional highlights for the upcoming 2022 season.
Tyler Tolbert and Juan Carlos Negret both etched their names into the Columbia record books with their performances Friday night at Segra Park.
Juan Carlos Negret was historic in multiple facets in the Fireflies 20-1 drubbing of the Charleston RiverDogs at Segra Park Thursday evening.